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Table 2.

Demographics and ocular characteristics of patients and factors affecting surgical results

	Success (n = 40)	Recurrence (n = 20)	Overcorrection (n = 4)	P value
Age at surgery for exotropia, years	34.9 ± 15.2 (18 to 71)	31.3 ± 13.4 (18 to 59)	47.0 ± 5.5 (42 to 54)	0. 397^a
Sex (M:F)	20:20	12:8	3:1	0.464^b
Preoperative deviation, PD
Distance	40.3 ± 15.8 (15 to 78)	51.4 ± 17.6 (28 to 103)	36.3 ± 8.5 (25 to 45)	0.013^a
Near	36.6 ± 13.2 (15 to 71)	46.5 ± 17.5 (15 to 103)	36.3 ± 8.5 (25 to 45)	0.012^a
Distance–Near	3.7 ± 6.9 (−5 to 28)	5.8 ± 7.2 (0 to 21)	0	0.222^a
Visual acuity of the affected eye				1.000^b
20/200–20/100	12	6	0
<20/200	28	14	4
Refractive errors, D
Fellow eye	−2.0 ± 3.3	−1.4 ± 3.3	−1.3 ± 2.7	0.965^a
Affected eye	−2.1 ± 4.5	−0.8 ± 2.0	−2.0 ± 5.2	0.717^a
Causes of vision loss				0.156^b
Congenital disorder	5	7	0
Anisometropia	5	1	1
Other acquired disorder	30	12	3
Surgery for disease-causing vision loss	21	13	2	0.357^b
Associated strabismus	21	11	4	0.855^b
Combined surgery for associated vertical strabismus	15	6	3	0.566^b
Adjustable suture	29	13	4	0.550^b
Postoperative adjustment	11	3	0	0.172^b
Postoperative follow-up, years	1.9 ± 1.1 (1.0 to 5.3)	2.4 ± 1.6 (1.0 to 6.6)	1.2 ± 0.4 (1.0 to 1.8)	0.147^a

P values were tested between groups of success and recurrence

Data are presented as mean ± standard deviation

D diopters, PD prism diopters

^aMann–Whitney test

^bPearson χ² test